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...playwright. At the moment he is represented in the West End by a romantic comedy called House of Cards, about an architect who suspects his wife of adultery. Stoppard opens The Real Thing with a scene from House of Cards, a brilliantly brittle Coward parody full of stiff-upper-libido dialogue like "I abhor cliché. It's one of the things that has kept me faithful." As it happens, the two leading players in House of Cards are Henry's wife Charlotte (Christine Baranski) and his friend Max (Kenneth Welsh). And Henry has just begun a secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Stoppard in the Name of Love | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

Passion. The Jekyll of respectability duels with the Hyde of libido. Peter Nichols' unsettling domestic comedy survived a ragged Broadway production with many of its virtues (and Actress Roxanne Hart's Circean charms) intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: THE BEST OF 1983: Theater | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

Four years ago Roth unveiled The Ghost Writer--the first of a trilogy exploring the psyche and libido of Nathan Zuckerman. He followed it two years later with the second volume. Zuckerman Unbound. Now in The Anatomy Lesson--the new, final member of the series--Roth and Zuckerman seem to have resolved little...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Maturing Slowly | 12/15/1983 | See Source »

...aggression, and not an aggressive expression of sexuality." Furthermore, Groth points out, even after castration, some men are capable of having intercourse. And if they cannot, the male hormone testosterone, produced naturally by the testes, is readily available in artificial form by pill or injection to restore both libido and potency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Castration or Incarceration? | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...strides through Metropolis with a heavy, sexy gait, as if John Wayne had just discovered his libido. A three-day beard prickles the lantern jaw. His hair has lost that Wildroot sheen, and the brilliant red cape has turned a dirty maroon. Even the cape's bold insignia looks tarnished: the S coils like a sinister serpent. From every corner of the Big Apricot, citizens avert their eyes, hardly daring to whisper: Can this be ... Superman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Goodness at the Crossroads | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

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